This week, the critics discuss the French movie BPM, about the ACT UP movement working to fight AIDS in 1990s France. The film made many critics’ lists of the best movies of 2017, so why was it snubbed for an Oscar nomination? Then, the gabbers talk about the new Netflix series Babylon Berlin, a German drama set during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Finally, things get Shakespearean: Scholars have checked William Shakespeare’s work against plagiarism software and found multiple similarities with a 16th-century manuscript. Does this discovery threaten his reputation as a literary genius, or is it time for us to rethink the relationship between the artist and his influences?